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Threats From Israel Against Charlie Kirk Before His Murder |
| From Anti-Mirror 9-17-25 |
Start of translation:Charlie Kirk rejected Netanyahu's financing offer and was "intimidated" by pro-Israel forces before his death, a friend reveals. A Trump insider and longtime friend of Charlie Kirk told The Grayzone how the murdered conservative activist's about-face on Israeli influence sparked a private backlash from Netanyahu's allies that left him angry and terrified. The source said fear spread within the Trump administration after an alleged Israeli espionage operation was exposed. Charlie Kirk rejected an offer earlier this year from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to provide his organization Turning Point USA (TPUSA), America's largest conservative youth league, with a massive new financial injection from Zionist sources, according to a longtime friend of the murdered commentator, who wished to remain anonymous. The source told The Grayzone that the late pro-Trump influencer believed Netanyahu was trying to silence him when he began publicly questioning Israel's overwhelming influence in Washington and called for more room for criticism of it. In the weeks leading up to his assassination on September 10, Kirk detested the Israeli prime minister and considered him a "tyrant," the source said. Kirk was disgusted by what he experienced within the Trump administration, where Netanyahu tried to personally dictate personnel decisions to the president and instrumentalized Israeli assets such as billionaire and donor Miriam Adelson to keep the White House firmly under his control. According to Kirk's friend, who also had access to President Donald Trump and his inner circle, Kirk warned Trump strongly last June against bombing Iran for Israel. "Charlie was the only one who did that," they said, recalling how Trump then "barked" at him and ended the conversation angrily. The source believes the incident confirmed Kirk's view that the U.S. president had come under the control of a malign foreign power and was leading his own country into a series of devastating conflicts. The following month, Kirk became the target of an ongoing private campaign of intimidation and the unbridled wrath of wealthy and powerful Netanyahu allies – figures he described in an interview as Jewish "leaders" and "lobbyists." "He was afraid of them," the source stressed. TPUSA's rift with Israel is wideningKirk was 18 years old when he founded TPUSA in 2012. From the beginning, his career was driven by Zionist donors who showered his fledgling organization with money through neoconservative organizations such as the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He thanked his wealthy supporters over the years by unleashing a relentless barrage of anti-Palestinian and Islamophobic diatribes, accepting propaganda trips to Israel, and resolutely opposing nationalist forces that questioned his support for Israel at TPUSA events. In the Trump era, few American non-Jews have proven to be more valuable to the self-proclaimed Jewish state than Charlie Kirk. But when Israel's genocidal attack on the besieged Gaza Strip sparked an unprecedented backlash among right-wing circles — only 24 percent of younger Republicans sympathize with Israel rather than the Palestinians — Kirk began to change his stance. At times, he toed the Israeli line, spreading false information about babies beheaded by Hamas on October 7 and denying the famine inflicted on the people of Gaza. At the same time, however, he backed away from his base, wondering aloud whether Jeffrey Epstein had been an Israeli intelligence officer, whether the Israeli government had allowed the October 7 attacks to pursue long-term political goals, and parroting narratives from his harshest critic from the right, streamer Nick Fuentes. In July of this year, Kirk offered the right-wing base a forum at his TPUSA Student Action Summit to vent their anger at Israel's political pressure on the Trump administration. There, speakers — from former Fox News stars Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly to anti-Zionist Jewish comedian Dave Smith — condemned Israel's bloody assault on the besieged Gaza Strip, branded Jeffrey Epstein as an agent of Israeli intelligence, and openly ridiculed Zionist billionaires like Bill Ackman for "getting away with scams" despite having "no real capabilities."
After the conference, Kirk was bombarded with angry text messages and phone calls from Netanyahu's wealthy allies in the US, including many who had financed TPUSA. According to his longtime friend, the Zionist donors treated Kirk with open contempt and practically ordered him to rejoin. "He was told what not to do, and that drove him crazy," Kirk's friend recalls. The conservative youth leader was not only alienated by the hostile nature of the talks, but also "frightened" by the backlash. The friend's account coincides with those of several right-wing commentators who had access to Kirk. "I think Charlie ended up going through a spiritual transformation," said Candace Owens, a conservative influencer who took a firm stand against Israel after October 7, after her boyfriend's murder. "I know he's been through a lot. The pressure was enormous, and it's hard for me to see the people who put him under pressure just say what they say." She continued, "They wanted him to lose everything just because he changed his mind or even slightly changed his mind. That hurts me a lot." Kirk appeared visibly outraged during an interview with conservative host Megyn Kelly on Aug. 6 when he spoke about the threatening messages he received from pro-Israel bigwigs. "All of a sudden, it's like, 'Oh, Charlie, he's not on our side anymore.' Wait a minute, what exactly does 'on our side' mean? I'm American, okay? I represent this country," he declared, before turning to the powerful Zionist interests that were harassing him. "The more you question our character privately and publicly – which is not an isolated case, it would be a matter if it were only one or two texts; it's dozens of lyrics – the more we start saying, 'Wow, hold on!'" Kirk continued. "To be fair, some really good Jewish friends say, 'That's not all of us' ... But these are the leaders. These are the stakeholders." He further complained to Kelly, "I'm less able ... to criticize the Israeli government than the Israelis themselves. And that's really, really strange." In one of his last interviews with Ben Shapiro, Israel's most influential man in the U.S., Kirk again tried to raise the issue of censorship of Israel critics. "Interestingly, a friend said to me, 'Charlie, okay, we've been standing up to the media about COVID, lockdowns, Ukraine, and the border,'" Kirk told Shapiro on Sept. 9. "Perhaps we should also ask ourselves the question: Are the media presenting the truth when it comes to Israel? Just a question!"
The Israel-was-it theoryKirk was killed on September 10 by a single shot from a sniper who appeared to be stationed on a rooftop 200 meters away. He was shot while sitting in front of thousands of people at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, on the first leg of his American comeback tour. The scene in which Kirk collapses from a shot in the neck just as he is about to answer a question about transgender gunmen was perhaps the most shocking and haunting – and certainly the most viral – assassination in human history. Currently, there is no evidence of Israeli government involvement in Kirk's murder. However, that doesn't stop thousands of social media users from speculating that the pro-Trump activist's changed views on the issue contributed to his death in some way. At the time of publication, over 100,000 Twitter/X users have liked a post by libertarian influencer Ian Carroll on September 11. It says about Kirk:
Many who advocate this unproven theory point to a Twitter/X post by Harrison Smith, an employee of the pro-Trump network Infowars. It states on August 13 – almost a month before Kirk's murder – that "someone close to Charlie Kirk told him that Kirk believed Israel would kill him if he turned against Israel." The wild speculation has sent shockwaves in Tel Aviv, where Netanyahu was forced to explicitly deny that his government had killed Kirk in an interview with NewsMax on September 11.
Netanyahu and his allies bury the Kirk crisis as the 'big tent' collapsesThis appearance was just one of several interviews and statements that the prime minister dedicated to Kirk after his assassination in order to put the legacy of the late conservative politician in a consistently pro-Israel light. The major PR campaign is taking place as Netanyahu wages a military campaign on seven fronts, crowned by a regional series of assassinations that most recently reached the heart of Qatar, a US ally. Netanyahu first tweeted prayers for Kirk on September 10 at 3:02 p.m., a few minutes after the shooting became known. Since then, he has written three more pieces about Kirk and even left the Israeli War Cabinet to commemorate the conservative activist on Fox News on the afternoon of September 11. In this interview, Netanyahu insinuated to the best of his ability that Israel's enemies were responsible for Kirk's murder, even though no suspect was named or in custody at the time:
In a September 10 Twitter/X post praising the conservative activist, the Israeli prime minister described a recent phone conversation with Kirk:
It was not mentioned whether Kirk declined the invitation, just as he rejected the prime minister's offer to replenish the TPUSA's coffers with donations from his circle of wealthy Jewish henchmen. At the time of publication, a 22-year-old Utah resident was arrested after allegedly confessing to Kirk's murder. The public could soon learn the true motives of the alleged attacker. Perhaps they are fueling the narrative that Trump and his allies spread immediately after the shooting that a left-wing radical was responsible and that a wave of draconian repression would have to follow. But after the shooter's initial escape and a series of mishaps by the Federal Police, a large part of Americans will probably never believe the official version. Nor will they ever know where Kirk's turning point in Israel policy would have led the conservative movement. Four days before the assassination, the frustration of pro-Israel commentators boiled over publicly when Ben Shapiro sharply attacked Kirk in a Fox News interview, without naming him.
Four days later, when Kirk took his usual place "in front of the church", he was struck down by a sniper. Within 24 hours of Kirk's death, Shapiro announced that he would be starting his own lecture tour on campus, vowing, "We're going to pick up the bloodstained microphone where Charlie put it." End of translationThis free proxy site worked great, you select n EU (not US) server and the site loads normally.
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